Standard electric kettles can typically hold between six to eight cups of water, or 1.7 liters, at a time. Most gooseneck kettles, however, usually have less capacity at around 1 liter.

This was a year whose high points included Joan Jonas’s luminous survey, the extravaganza “PST ART,” and the 24-karat beauty of a show “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350.” ...

Before feminism gained momentum in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there was the Bluestocking Society, an eighteenth-century literary group run by aristocratic and brilliant women of the ...